Harry’s Game Change
The following line may be hard for some of you to believe, but I can assure you it was even harder for me to write: “I completely agree with Harry Reid.”
There I said it.
In the latest and greatest tell all book about the 2008 presidential election “Game Change” authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin assemble supposed quotes from more than 200 supposed campaign workers and campaign insiders including Barack Obama himself.
Within the pages of this innuendo filled sump pit, Halperin, who is an analyst for Time magazine, and Heilemann, who contributes for New York magazine, engage in what could only be described as gutter trash journalism so beneath normal journalistic standards that the weekly checkout line gossip rags would have a hard time justifying its publication.
The book is filled with damning portrayals of just about every major presidential candidate as well as vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The only candidate immune from the degenerate insinuations is Barack Obama, which may be why he agreed to sit down with the authors for his input last June in the White House.
In each instance an anonymous source gives juicy tidbits of what it was really like on the inside of the campaign. None of these sources are ever named or in any way identified and none of the claims made can be substantiated in any fashion whatsoever by anyone other than the authors who have an obvious vested interest in selling books.
There are stories of Sarah Palin being mentally unstable and incapable of debating Joe Biden or showing any sign of intelligence to the American people. While it makes for a few good sound bites on the six o’clock news, the reality is that Palin came across as quite prepared in her debate, with many saying she had actually won and since then has had no problem garnering massive support amongst conservatives and causing even greater panic amongst liberals.
There are other stories about Bill Clinton carrying on new sordid romantic dalliances and how the Hillary camp was prepared to deal with it should it have become public. John Edwards and his pants dropping videographer pal Rielle Hunter, as well as Edwards’ wife and her mental and emotional instability, paying no mind to the fact that she is fighting terminal cancer.
There are stories of Joe Biden fighting with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fighting with just about everybody. But the one story that has recently attracted the most attention is a comment made by the Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid regarding Barack Obama.
Reid is quoted from a private conversation as saying that Obama could be elected president because “He is a light skinned African-American with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”
Republicans are foolishly trying to make political hay out of the comment and Democrats are circling the wagons to defend him. I really don’t see what all the hubbub is about. What Reid said is not racist, it’s absolutely correct. It is also the exact reason Obama was elected president with absolutely no useful experience or qualifications to serve in that capacity.
Obama truly is a light skinned African-American with no Negro dialect unless he wants to have one. He is light skinned because he is half white. A fact that he has discussed at length but is rarely recognized in the black community. He is actually one of the few true African-Americans in this country because his father was an African and his mother was American. He has no Negro dialect because he was raised by his white mother and had very limited contact with folks that spoke with a discernable Negro dialect until he was much older. He has since developed the ability to switch on a faux Negro dialect for situations where it is politically expedient for him to do so.
None of these are racist issues, but race was in fact the one overwhelming factor in this past presidential election. Obama was just black enough to garner near 100% of the black community’s support. But his appearance and speech was white enough so as not to scare away white voters, who were willing to overlook his complete lack of qualifications in order to be part of history. It was almost all about skin tone and the ability to connect with white voters verbally through meaningless mantras like Hope and Change. It doesn’t matter if you carry 110% of the black vote. If whites don’t vote for you, you don’t get elected.
Reid was already in deep democrat dung before this quote became known and he owned up to it. It won’t bother me a bit if it helps to get him soundly defeated in the November election. But I do not believe that Harry Reid had any racist undertones in his opinion and description of Barack Obama.
Of course that doesn’t make him any less of a horse’s ass.
Game Change, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton
